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- DirectorJRAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaJRJeannine CarpentierDirector Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
- DirectorMat WhitecrossMichael WinterbottomStarsRiz AhmedFarhad HarunWaqar SiddiquiPart drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
- DirectorGianfranco RosiStarsFrancesco De SantisGaetano FinocchiRoberto GiulianiFor nearly two years of exploring the "Great Ring Road's" almost 70km of looping highway, Gianfranco Rosi brings to the foreground the daily routine of ordinary people, composing the profile of a microcosm on the outskirts of Great Rome.
- DirectorMichèle HozerPeter RaymontStarsCornelia FossGlenn GouldA documentary on the mysterious and influential pianist.
- DirectorTim DunnStuart ElliottStarsSusannah YorkStephen NoonanRoy HolderIn the year that the David celebrates its 500th anniversary, BBC ONE brings to life the story of one of the most gifted, and tempestuous, artists in history.
- DirectorMaria IlioúStarsEleni BasteaAlexandros KitroevGiles MiltonAn examination of the destruction of cosmopolitan city Smyrna in 1922.
- DirectorJoseph HillelStarsGeoffrey BatchenEstrellita KarshAnnie LeibovitzA portrait of legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh through told through his breathtaking photography.
- DirectorDavid AdamsStarsLaithongrien MeepanThe Last Mahout is a unique portal into the plight of the Asian Elephants; the film explores the tragic collisions of man and beast and speaks plainly about the steps necessary to save this remarkable animal. Elephants are vulnerable to all manner of threats and need large areas of forest in the wild. Habitat loss and fragmentation threatens them throughout their range. As habitat becomes fragmented elephants come into increasing, often fatal conflict with humans and agriculture.
- DirectorTim LambertStarsMaggie Aderin-PocockDavid CriswellGary LofgrenThrough an immersive combination of footage, photos and 3D CGI, this documentary reveals how different the Earth might be if the moon wasn't exactly where it is now. How does a rock orbiting a quarter of a million miles away from Earth hold the power to shape our future?
- DirectorJames HoneyborneStarsBill OddieBBC invites you to accomplish a surprizing round-the-world voyage together with a drop of water.
- DirectorSharron HawkesThe great manuscript archives from this period solved matters such as determining direction of Mecca and time keeping are in grave danger of being destroyed by ravages of time.
- DirectorRussell EnglandJohn SmithsonStarsSteven MackintoshBrian DeaconRosamund WelchmanThanks to the movie "The Imitation Game" many people know that Alan Turing was one of the men behind breaking the german coding machine Enigma during World War II. But an equally important person was Gordon Welchman, who invented the socalled traffic analysis. This movie tells the story of Gordon Welchman.
- DirectorAndreas KoefoedAt Home in the world gives a unique insight into the lives of five refugee kids during their first year in a Red Cross refugee school in Denmark.
- DirectorLiz GarbusStarsNina SimoneLisa Simone KellyRoger NupieA documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul."
- DirectorLefteris CharitosStarsJacques MayolJean-Marc BarrUmberto PelizzariDolphin Man draws us into the world of Jacques Mayol, capturing his compelling journey and immersing viewers into the sensory and transformative experience of free-diving. From the Mediterranean to Japan and from India to the Bahamas, we meet Mayol's closest friends and family, including his children Dottie and Jean-Jacques, and world free-diving champions William Trubridge, Mehgan Heaney-Grier and Umberto Pelizzari, to reveal the portrait of a man who reached the limits of the human body and mind, not just to break records but hoping to discover the deeper affinity between human beings and the sea. Narrated by Jean-Marc Barr, the actor who famously portrayed Mayol in The Big Blue, the film weaves together rare film archive from the 1950s onwards, with stunning contemporary underwater photography, to discover how the 'dolphin man' revolutionized free-diving and brought a new consciousness to our relationship with the sea and our inner-selves.
- DirectorAmy MillerLocal activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and power structures in a struggle for social and climate justice.
- DirectorBen LewisStarsBrendan PriceNicolas ChapmanMolly MalcolmThe most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google say they are building a library for mankind, but they also have other intentions.
- DirectorAlex GibneyStarsPaul HaggisJason BegheSpanky TaylorA documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.
- In the last few years, the data stream flowing through the internet has turned into a tsunami: Ninety percent of the information sitting on the world's servers was created in the last two years. This total digitization opens up completely new possibilities. Suddenly, our entire lives can be modeled mathematically - and become predictable.
- DirectorGregory MonroStarsRomane BohringerLexie KendrickJames D. McLairdShe fought the Indians alongside Custer, witnessed the birth of Deadwood, and was close friends with Buffalo Bill. She was the terror of the plains, the outrage of the saloons, the oddest of her kind. But no one ever knew who she really was. Her name was Martha Canary; her name is Calamity Jane.
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsAmy WinehouseMitch WinehouseMark RonsonArchival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.
- DirectorTim DelmastroStarsAdam FergussonG. Edward GriffinMike MaloneyIn 2008 the world experienced financial turmoil. Markets crashed, stocks plummeted, and financial institutions thought to be invincible, collapsed. Was the financial crisis solved or were the problems merely kicked down the road?
- StarsHenry StrozierGeorge ArmelagosCharlie BamforthThis show traces the important role that beer has played in human history from the probable origins of the first beer at the dawn of history to the development of a special beer for use in zero gravity space missions.
- DirectorLaura BariStarsAntoine HouangMaelle Thomas-TraoréJulietta Maeder BariA sensitive depiction of the real and imaginary worlds of a little six-year-old boy, who is lucid, confident and blind.
- DirectorBrian Henry MartinStarsIan McElhinneyHushang JamshidiPhillip OrrDescribed as a photographic discovery of the century, this documentary uncovers the remarkable story of Lance Corporal George Hackney.